31/08/2026
He was just 13… and he did what no human had officially done before. 🎮
Willis Gibson reached the infamous “kill screen” in the original NES version of Tetris — the point where the game essentially breaks because the levels become too fast to continue normally.
He reached Level 157 and a score of 999,999 before the game froze.
What makes the story incredible isn't just the score.
It's the fact that something people had spent decades trying to master...
was finally pushed beyond what the game itself could handle.
Sometimes, the limit isn't your ability.
It's the limit everyone assumed couldn't be crossed.
And that's what great technology should do:
Push the limits. Then redefine them.
KRATOS — Technology built for what’s next.
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